For the healthcare sector, it is the beginning of a long journey Budget 2021 is aimed at addressing only the immediate needs, and it is still far from providing a long-term immunity booster to the healthcare sector Hitesh Sharma (Image: Reuters) In normal parlance, the health status of any country largely depends upon the available health infrastructure, healthcare human resources, governmental policies and budgetary allocations targeted towards the life sciences and healthcare sector. While India has over the years fallen short on providing the required focus to the sector, the Union government, with its holistic approach, focused policies to uplift the health and wellbeing of people, budgetary allocations and the pandemic situations, has provided the health sector much-needed importance.